ON FEB. 25 ...

In 1570, Queen Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.

In 1793 federal department heads met with President George Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record.

In 1836 inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.

In 1901 U.S. Steel was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.

In 1913 Congress was given the authority to levy income taxes when the 16th Amendment went into effect.

In 1948 Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia.

In 1964 Cassius Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston.

In 1983 playwright Tennessee

Williams died in New York; he was 70.

In 1986 President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.

In 1988 the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance permitting limited night baseball at Wrigley Field.

In 1990 Nicaragua voted in an election that resulted in an upset victory for foes of the ruling Sandinistas.

In 1991 , 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during the Persian Gulf War.

In 1993 President Bill Clinton ordered the Pentagon to mount an airdrop of relief supplies into Bosnia-Herzegovina, representing the first unilateral U.S. military involvement in Yugoslavia’s civil war. Also in 1993 Kim Young-sam was sworn in as South Korea’s first civilian president in 32 years.

In 1996 Dr. Haing S. Ngor, the former Cambodian refugee who won an Academy Award for his rule in the 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” was shot and killed in a robbery in Los Angeles; he was 55.

In 1998 Kim Dae Jung, once South Korea’s leading dissident, was inaugurated as its president.

In 2000 a jury in Albany, N.Y., acquitted four white New

York City police officers of all charges in the shooting death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo.

In 2001 the commander of the U.S. submarine that struck and sunk a Japanese trawler off Hawaii expressed his “most sincere regret” — but Cmdr. Scott Waddle stopped short of an apology.

In 2004 the Supreme Court ruled states do not have to underwrite the religious training of students planning careers in the ministry.

In 2005 municipal employee and church leader Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.) Also in 2005 The Walt Disney Co. agreed to sell the Anaheim Mighty Ducks to billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife, Susan, for $75 million.

In 2013 Dr. C. Everett Koop, the U.S. surgeon general in the 1980s who led campaigns against smoking and AIDS, died in New Hampshire; he was 96.

In 2016 upstart Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to several thousand people at Chicago State University after a televised appearance at his alma mater, the University of Chicago, seeking to leverage his popularity among younger voters to defeat primary rival Hillary Clinton in her home state of Illinois.